dragonofdispair

...mostly because i spent a total of about five minutes at home since waking up saturday morning till sunday night.

i did go to the market with smoke. she got lots of attention and petting. i had one very long conversation about cats in general and older cats in specific with one lady whose cats are the same age or older as my old kitty.

i'm not going to list of everything i bought at the market. after shopping, smoke wanted to explore and i got to the next thing i'd wanted to do that day late.

woke up my boyfriend, then we went to the school's boffer club. which was supposed to be a lot of fun because i'd been looking for a venue for boffer combat since i moved. the problem came from the fact that the game i'd been playing for six years (nero) is a touch game and the club works off of hitting. i didn't mind getting hit so much as the fact that because i'm used to a touch game, the other players weren't taking my hits. and i couldn't hit harder -- six years of restraint gets you to the point that it's no longer really restraint anymore. so it wasn't as fun as i thought it would be.

after though, i dmed a short 2.0 game for the benefit of an acquaintance's brother. it's rather disgraceful to watch three level ten characters nearly lose to a singe drow who isn't even using his poison darts.

sunday: woke up late and had to run to get to a scheduled dnd game one time. didn't quite make it though and was late, but the game was fun (summoning an army of celestial badgers is a good thing).

also -- i'm not sure how i found the time for it -- i reinstalled neverwinter nights onto my computer. i'm playing a druid (yes again) going into the shifter prestige class when i can. my goal is to get a character who can take the dragon shape feat, which requires that you essentially start building your character with that feat in mind. which is why i'm starting a new character.

went to the market with smoke today. it rained last night so everything was all wet, but i took her because it wasn't currently raining and she actually likes sniffing things after it's rained.

my boyfriend couldn't go with me this time, but gave me some money so i could buy milk for him at the dairy booth.

in addition to the milk for him i bought a roll for breakfast, smoked salmon, pear cider, apples, bacon, and a cookie.

smoke was very well behaved during the sitting and watching the crowds portion of everything, and the crowd seems to have regained its courage because i got questions, comments and kids again this week. one lady even wanted to take her picture. nifty huh?

after that though, during the actual walk, she decided she was going to be a brat and had to be taken home in the carrier.

so... i go from not updating this for months to updating the next day. i'm that bored at the moment.

( so now on to the (semi) regularly scheduled crack )

my cat is a brat.

i'm here. finally. tomorrow, lordchaos359 and i are going to get together to and plot evil dungeons and dragons things. hehe.

smoke flew down with me. she was not happy on the plane, but not too traumatized on the plane yesterday.

harry, my parents' cat, seems to think she's competition for food even though she's staying locked in the guest room i'm staying in.

there's a fly flying around my apartment because i've got the windows open due to the heat earlier this week.

today smoke was stalking and trying to catch it.

it was cute and made me happy.

went to the market. bought stuff. walked cat.

busy posting the next fanfiction chapter.

okay... this is really, really random even for me: i found out my cat likes cherry poptarts.

that's not just random for me -- that's random for her.

this cat usually disdains eating anything not fish flavored. she often expresses quite a bit of curiosity over what i'm eating though, so it's not unusual for me to break off a bit for her to sniff at. and that's what she does for anything that's not fish -- sniffs at it then looks at me like "why in hell would you eat something like that?" and walks away. leaving me to clean the bit of food off the floor.

so when smoke came up to sniff my breakfast this morning, i thought nothing of breaking off a bit and offering it to her.

then she licked it.

so my cat likes cherry poptarts. or at least, licking the filling of cherry poptarts.

i love cats. they're so weird.

so i took smoke to the market like i normally do. sat, people watched, answered questions from anyone who asked, talked. pretty normal. one person stopped to talk for a while and somehow the subject of age came up and i mentioned that my birthday is tomorrow. she wished me happy birthday and we ended the conversation soon after.

next thing i know, she's coming back through the crowd to give me a bundle of purple and telling me they're a birthday present. cool huh?

it gets better.

a bit after that i put smoke back in her carrier to do the shopping.

bought smoked salmon, strawberry soda, a piece of buttermilk fudge cake and two beeswax birthday candles for tomorrow.

one vender, who i've seen before but not since the season started at the beginning of the quarter, was there and i wandered over to look at what she had. really good looking chocolates. i think maybe later, but i'm looking for a cake now, so i start to wander away and as she finishes up with he current customer, she asks about the lilacs. says she's seen white ones and purple ones, but not purple and white ones, where did i get them? i tell her how, and she says she'll give me a free chocolate for my birthday. i picked out a salted lavender caramel one.

so... shaping into an awesome weekend.

tomorrow, i think i'll make a point to call my sister and bug her. that's always fun.